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No More Ignorance

 

NMI, No-More-Ignorance, is a group of artists who, all together, are sharing their desire to struggle against War, Propaganda & Human right violations everywhere in the world.  Their tool is creativity—artwork, poems, music, illustration, and interactive media.   NMI’s latest project, Gaza: Over and Over, is a 70-page documentation of Israel’s military aggression on Gaza Strip from December 2008 until February 2009. It contains photos, data, reports and artwork related to the war, with more than 30 artists involved and more than 40 artworks featured.   There is an additional Collection of videos here.  http://nomoreign.wordpress.com.

 

 

 

Goldstone Facts

Introducing a useful new website containing videos dramatising various sections of the Goldstone Report as well as links to a number of important articles and analyses relating to it.  In 2009 the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission led by Justice Richard Goldstone released its report (executive summary can be found here) on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The report concluded that there exists strong evidence indicating the 22-day war saw serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.   The aim of the www.goldstonefacts.org  project is to make more accessible the report’s salient findings and conclusions and to support the struggle of the Palestinian people.  An excellent resource tool.

CASMII Press Release:

An appeal to anti-war organizations & activists to oppose the increasing threats against Iran
 
Around the world, anti-war activists are preparing for major protests this spring to oppose the continuing U.S.-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a storm of developments is dramatically increasing tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In response, the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) is issuing this appeal to the anti-war movements in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries to raise the demands of “No war, no sanctions, no internal interference in Iran!”

 

Iran is a country that hasn’t attacked a neighbor in more than 200 years. Even when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran after the 1979 Revolution and, with support from the West, used chemical weapons against both civilians and combatants, the Islamic Republic did not retaliate in kind. And yet the U.S. government claims that Iran represents a serious threat to the Middle East region and the entire world. Without a shred of evidence, the U.S. charges that Iran's program to develop nuclear power for peaceful energy purposes is just a cover to develop nuclear weapons. Never mentioned is the fact that, as a signatory to the U.N.'s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran's right to develop nuclear energy is enshrined in international law. Just a few months ago, the U.N's International Atomic Energy Chief, Mohammed ElBardai, the person responsible for monitoring compliance with that treaty, stated that “Nobody is sitting in Iran today developing nuclear weapons. Tehran doesn’t have an ongoing nuclear weapons program. But somehow, everyone in the West is talking about how Iran’s nuclear program is the greatest threat to the world.” (Interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sept. 2009) Instead, warning of world disaster if Iran should succeed in its imaginary goal of obtaining nuclear arms, Washington argues that Iran must be forcefully brought to its knees, through a combination of increasingly crippling sanctions, taking advantage of Iran's internal divisions and preparing for a possible military attack.

Regardless of differences in our political analyses and views, these demands should be acceptable to all who struggle for peace, justice and a better world for all.  For more information or to contact CASMII please visit http://www.campaigniran.org.

Read the full report, which includes recent developments, here.

 

 

 

Petition: The right of entry/exit, the right of education

Ayman Talal E. Quader was born in Gaza, Palestine, and has lived in Gaza City for his entire life. As a young Palestinian student who truly loves his homeland and has always dreamed of freedom for his people, Ayman has worked very hard to achieve one of his most important goals in life; earning a scholarship for a Masters program in Europe.

 

Ayman was recently accepted to an academic scholarship program at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellَn, Spain for the International Masters in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies (PEACE Master). Ayman was also successfully granted a Spanish student visa in order to complete his academic program that begins February 2010 and runs all the way through to May of 2012.

 

“All I want is my basic rights to learn and study; rights that are supposed to be guaranteed and recommended by all the international resolutions and the United Nations.  I am not asking for a miracle, it is my reserved right. I am handling all my documents, visa, acceptance letter from my university and supporting documents. Why I am being prevented from leaving Gaza and prevented access to Spain?”

 

Demand an answer for Ayman.  Sign the petition here http://www.petitiononline.com/salam123/petition.html.